Morning Minutes: Animal health firm raises $15 million, Southwest employees picket in St. Louis
Here are this morning’s top business headlines from across Missouri:
Animal health firm with KC ties raises $15 million
Advanced Animal Diagnostics, an animal health company with ties to Kansas City and its animal health corridor, has raised $15 million to help fund expansion.
KC and St. Louis Fed boards announce changes
The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City on Tuesday both announced a handful of leadership changes involving high-ranking executives from local companies.
Southwest baggage handlers picket in St. Louis
Southwest Airlines baggage handlers picketed on Tuesday outside of Lambert-St. Louis International Airport to call attention to deteriorating contract negotiations and working conditions they say have caused the airline’s on-time performance to suffer.
Monsanto, DuPont reach settlement in patent suits
Monsanto Co. and DuPont Co. have reached a settlement over patent infringement lawsuits that will end a recent run of dueling litigation between the two seed companies. Upon dismissal of the suits, the companies will have no other pending litigation against each other.
Tuition costs for A+ program will be lower than feared
Missouri’s A+ scholarship program, designed to provide affordable community college education to students across the state, will not suffer as severely from budget constraints as once anticipated.
